In the annals of internet
conspiracy theories,
none is more pervasive than the one speculating paid government plants
infiltrate websites, social network sites, and comment sections with an intent
to sow discord, troll, and generally manipulate, deceive and destroy
reputations. Guess what: it was all true.

And this time we have a
pretty slideshow of formerly confidential data prepared by the UK NSA
equivalent, the GCHQ, to confirm it, and Edward Snowden to thank for disclosing
it. The messenger in this case is Glenn Greenwald, who has released the data in
an article in his new website, firstlook.org,
which he summarizes as follows:

"by publishing these stories one by one,
our NBC reporting highlighted some of the key, discrete revelations: the
monitoring of YouTube and Blogger, the targeting of Anonymous with the very
same DDoS attacks they accuse “hacktivists” of using, the use of “honey traps”
(luring people into compromising situations using sex) and destructive viruses.
But, here, I want to focus and elaborate on the overarching point revealed by
all of these documents: namely, that these agencies are attempting to
control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so,
are compromising the integrity of the internet itself."
Call it Stasi for "Generation Internet."

Among the core
self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of
false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its
targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate
online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To
see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of
using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the
internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts
(pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to
destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums. Here is one
illustrative list of tactics from the latest GCHQ document we’re publishing
today:

Other tactics aimed at
individuals are listed here, under the revealing title “discredit a target”:

Then there are the
tactics used to destroy companies the agency targets:

Critically, the “targets”
for this deceit and reputation-destruction extend far beyond the customary
roster of normal spycraft: hostile nations and their leaders, military
agencies, and intelligence services. In fact, the discussion of many of these
techniques occurs in the context of using them in lieu of “traditional law
enforcement” against people suspected (but not charged or convicted) of
ordinary crimes or, more broadly still, “hacktivism”, meaning those who use
online protest activity for political ends.

The title page of one of
these documents reflects the agency’s own awareness that it is “pushing the
boundaries” by using “cyber offensive” techniques against people who have
nothing to do with terrorism or national security threats, and indeed,
centrally involves law enforcement agents who investigate ordinary crimes:

Greenwald's punchline is
disturbing, and is sure to make paranoid conspiracy theorists crawl even deeper
into their holes for one simple reason: all of their worst fears were true all
along.

No matter your views on
Anonymous, “hacktivists” or garden-variety criminals, it is not difficult to
see how dangerous it is to have secret government agencies being able to target
any individuals they want – who have never been charged with, let alone convicted
of, any crimes – with these sorts of online, deception-based tactics of
reputation destruction and disruption.

The broader point
is that, far beyond hacktivists, these surveillance agencies have vested
themselves with the power to deliberately ruin people’s reputations and disrupt
their online political activity even though they’ve been charged with no
crimes, and even though their actions have no conceivable connection to
terrorism or even national security threats. As Anonymous expert Gabriella
Coleman of McGill University told me, “targeting Anonymous and hacktivists
amounts to targeting citizens for expressing their political beliefs, resulting
in the stifling of legitimate dissent.” Pointing to this study she published,
Professor Coleman vehemently contested the assertion that “there is anything
terrorist/violent in their actions.”

Government plans to
monitor and influence internet communications, and covertly infiltrate online
communities in order to sow dissension and disseminate false information, have
long been the source of speculation. Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein, a close
Obama adviser and the White House’s former head of the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, wrote a controversial paper in 2008 proposing
that the US government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-”independent”
advocates to “cognitively infiltrate” online groups and websites, as well as
other activist groups.

Sunstein also
proposed sending covert agents into “chat rooms, online social networks, or
even real-space groups” which spread what he views as false and damaging
“conspiracy theories” about the government. Ironically, the very same Sunstein
was recently named by Obama to serve as a member of the NSA review panel
created by the White House, one that – while disputing key NSA claims –
proceeded to propose many
cosmetic reforms to the agency’s powers (most of which were ignored by the
President who appointed them).

But while until now there
was speculation that Sunstein's policies had been implemented, there was no
proof. That is no longer the case:

... these GCHQ documents
are the first to prove that a major western government is using some of the
most controversial techniques to disseminate deception online and harm the
reputations of targets. Under the tactics they use, the state is deliberately
spreading lies on the internet about whichever individuals it targets,
including the use of what GCHQ itself calls “false flag operations” and emails
to people’s families and friends. Who would possibly trust a government to
exercise these powers at all, let alone do so in secret, with virtually no
oversight, and outside of any cognizable legal framework?

What is perhaps most
disturbing is the level of detail these modern day Stasi agents engage in,
paradoxically proposing social subversion without realizing they themselves
would be susceptible to just that. And all it would take is one whistleblower
with a conscience:

Under the title “Online
Covert Action”, the document details a variety of means to engage in “influence
and info ops” as well as “disruption and computer net attack”, while dissecting
how human being can be manipulated using “leaders”, “trust, “obedience” and
“compliance”:

The documents lay out
theories of how humans interact with one another, particularly online, and then
attempt to identify ways to influence the outcomes – or “game” it:

Greenwald's conclusion is
spot on:

These agencies’ refusal
to “comment on intelligence matters” – meaning: talk at all about anything and
everything they do – is precisely why whistleblowing is so urgent, the
journalism that supports it so clearly in the public interest, and the
increasingly unhinged attacks by these agencies so easy to understand. Claims
that government agencies are infiltrating online communities and engaging in
“false flag operations” to discredit targets are often dismissed as conspiracy
theories, but these documents leave no doubt they are doing precisely that.

Whatever
else is true, no government should be able to engage in these tactics: what
justification is there for having government agencies target people – who have
been charged with no crime – for reputation-destruction, infiltrate online
political communities, and develop techniques for manipulating online
discourse? But to allow those actions with no public knowledge
or accountability is particularly unjustifiable.

So the next time you run
into someone in a chat room or a message board who sounds just a little too
much like a paid government subversive... it may not be just the paranoia
speaking. For the full details "why not", read the formerly
confidential slideshow at the link below:

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